Diablo 3 Beta Options Menus

While no one’s first priority when they get their hands on Diablo 3 is going to be sorting through the options menus, you don’t have your hands on Diablo 3 yet… so you might be curious to take a look now? We’ve added screencaps of all the options menus in the Diablo 3 Beta to our Beta Interface gallery, and they’re worth a look. There are many, many more options than we had in Diablo II, with all sorts of settings for item hovers, tool tips, monster hps display (or not) sound options, red outline, and much more.

The “where’s the anti-aliasing!” protesters who show up in every screenshot post will want to take note of the video options, and the lack of an “On” option in the “FSAA Level” drop down menu. It’s not available in this build, but presumably will be in the final game with fully-optimized graphics.

Main Options Menu. Many of the interface links aren’t colored, which means they are not clickable yet at this point in the Beta test.

I know that it was never confirmed. The only reason that I asked about the red outline is that Flux wrote in this news that among other options in the beta client is indeed the red outline option and I simply don’t see it. 🙂

I’ve played the demo’s at the last two Blizzcon’s. Not once did I consciously notice the red outline. It kinda gets lost in the chaos, so you won’t really notice it unless you actively try to pick it out of the action.

wow are you serious ? this is not even ingame ui , its startup screens and install windows, its nothing. i mean i want diablo 3 too and i feel “the magic” of this current pre beta time , but this gives me nothing.

it just shows how little we actually get from official side.its like evidence of incapicity from blizzards side. i mean they are all so afraid of saying something wrong or showing something “non final” that they give us nothing … i mean they didnt even give an estimate for the beta even though its “supposedly” still this month. i think you cant argue that the Pr is pretty poor.

Fake. Very bad design. VERY FREAKING BAD. Not a Blizzard work. Some photoshoped shit. Looks like a student work. However it may be a placeholder, but I won’t believe. Of course I’m talking about menus (except the “Options” one), not the login screen. Why post this?

Because so far there haven’t been any new developments with the Beta and the Incgamers crew needs to throw something into the fire to keep it going.

“Fake.”

Not really, you can download the client yourself and install it yourself and see the menu’s for yourself. Placeholder? Probably, but its most definitely NOT FAKE. Now if it was a release product then I’d happily join you in yelling at the Dev team for being so lazy here, but since its still in Beta I’ma let that slide.

Yes, actually. You looked in our beta forum lately? It’s leak-tastic. As I’ve said in several posts thus far, the beta downloader is fun to poke at, but you can’t play with it; you have to have d3 beta access via a b.net account to play the game. Otherwise you can only poke around at the options menus… kind of like what you see in this post?

We don’t post content w/o knowing it’s real. Well, obviously we post rumors and speculation and stuff, but we say that’s what it is in those cases. When we post something as X, it’s X, and in the case of something like this, we have confirmed it.

I imagine it will change, but interesting there are no surround/eax options yet. And usually swapping left/right is handled by the OS or the driver manager software (or getting off your lazy butt and swapping them) now so it’s unusual that IS an option.

Thanks for posting Flux! Not sure why any one would complain about seeing these in a “its not even news” kind of way. I wonder why there are only 5 skill keys to tie? Does it just assume that right mouse button will be one? What if I want all 6 skills tied to the keyboard? (not that I do)

as i suspected, the d3 engine is crap. we are in 2011, and look: -no hdr option -no ambient occlusion -no lighting options -no model (polygons) option -no shader option what the flying fucck did the d3 team do in 6 years, that they couldnt at least reuse the sc2 engine to get the same level of scaling in d3 engine? reuse the algorithms, modify the sc2 engine to fit d3 needs, etc? this confirms to me that the d3 team is mediocre also the ui is ridiculously mediocre

6 skills, but only 5 skill hotkeys? I guess the other ones just go on your mouse buttons?

This also is making me notice the lack of a tab-toggled skill in the beta gameplay screenshots. And, actually, I’m really liking that removal. I’d much rather just press a button to cast the skill directly, than press a button to toggle it into place and then have to click.